Staff Software Engineer Autonomy and Motion Planning
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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About the Role
You will develop and test tactical autonomy behaviors for unmanned platforms across air, land, sea, and space domains. You will lead technical direction, architect scalable subsystems, work through the full development lifecycle, coordinate integrations, mentor engineers, and travel to work with end users and other teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Production-level C++ software development proficiency.
- 7 or more years of experience in software subsystem scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls.
- Experience with version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage project lifecycles.
- Ability to mentor junior team members.
- Ability to act as technical owner for an entire software system.
- Experience progressing concepts from research-grade to operationally ready is preferred.
- Mission-systems integration or flight-demonstration experience is preferred.
- Experience with collaborative mission planning, automated tactics, motion planning, target assignment, collision avoidance, geofencing, or safety monitoring is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms.
- Implement and test multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability behaviors.
- Perform requirements capture, design, implementation, verification, and validation.
- Develop reusable behaviors across projects and portfolios.
- Architect scalable software subsystems interacting with system components.
- Coordinate delivery of capabilities to vehicle platforms.
- Align interface requirements with external and vehicle integration teams.
- Represent software engineering in multi-stakeholder environments.
- Travel to co-locate with end users or other teams up to 20% of the time.